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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20

consent, and, if the lady consented, the
law required that every kiss should he
wiped out by a fine of three marks
equivalent to 40 ellis of wadmal-a
quantity sufficient to furnish whole
ships crew with pilot Jackets.
In Russia the Eastern salutAiiOn Is q
kiss. Each member of the family sal.
utes the other with kiss; chance
acquaintance on meeting kiss; prin-
cipals kiss their employees; the General
kisses his officers; the officers kiss their
soldiers; the Czar kisses his family,
retinue, court, and attendants, and:even
his officers on parade, the senttnels
at the passage gates, and select
party of private soldiers probably
elaborstely prepared for this s'royaI
salute" In other parts the poorest
serf, meeting high-born dame in the
street, has but to say, tsChrist is Risen,"
and he will receive kiss and the re-
ply, ssHe has risen, truly"
Hume, in his quaint old "Table-
Book" gives an account of curious
old kissing festival held in Ireland
"Easter Monday several hundred
young persons of the town and neigh
borhood OF Potsferry, county Down,
resort, dressed in their best, to plea
SAINT walk near the town, called 'The
Waller The avowed object of each
person is to see the fun, which consists
in the men kissing the females without
reserve, whether married or single.
This mode of salutation is quite mat
ter Of course 1t is never taken amiss,
nor with much show of coyness. The
female must be ordinary indeed who
returns home without having received
at least q dozen hearty busses."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20
THE CITY OFIIIE LIVING.

In 10 long vanished ami Inc. age, whose varied story
$" long ago expired It's grief and glory.
There flourished, far away,
In Il broad roalm,, whose beauty passed all
measure,
A city fair and widc
Wforein tho dweiiors lived III peace rud
And mover any died.
Disoase and pain and death, those storn
marauders,
Which mar our words fair face
Mover encroached upon tho pleasant borders
OF that bright dwelling-place.
No fear of parting and no droad OF dying
Could ever enter there:
No mourning for the lost, no anguisI,od
Made any face less fair.
without the city wall, Doath reigned Us
And graves rose side by side;
Within, the dwellers laughed at his ondca-
And never any died.
O happiest of all earth's favored places!
bliss to dwell therein!
To live in tho sweet light of loving faces
And fear no grave betwcen.
To feel no death-damp gathering cold and
DNpuClnX mes warm trtltn.
To live on, never lonelier nor Older
Radiant In deathless youth;
And hurrying from the worlds ron'olcst
4ua!ters,
A tide OF pilgrims flowed
Across broad plains and over mighty wa
To find that bIcst abode.
Where Death should never come bot ween
and sever
,o;.
Whore they might work, and will, and 1.-Two
still holding hearts to heart.
And so they lived, in happiness and pleas
And grew in power and pride,
And did great deeds, and laid mp store of
treasure,
And never any died.
And many years rolled on and saw them
striving,
With unapated breath;
Aud other years still found and left them
living,
And gave no hope of death.
Yet listen, haploss soul, whom angels pity,
Craving boon like this
Mark how the dwellcrs in tho wOndrous
city,
Grew weary of their bliss.
One and another who had been conccolin,
Tho pain OF LIES long thralI,
Forsook their pleasant places AID cam,
stealing
Outside the city wall.
Craving with wish that broulscd no NOR
denying
SO long IL had boon crossed
The blessed possibility of dying,
The treasure they had lost!
| Daily tho current Of rest seeking mortal
| Swciled to Il broader tide,
| tfii none were left within cit \'S
| tails,
And graves grew green outside.
Would it DO worth the having, or the gi,
| ing,
Tho boon of endless breath
All, for the weariness that comes of liNin:
There IL no cure but death.
Ours were indeed "A fate deserving pity
Were that sweet rest denied,
And few, methinks, would care to find IL
r city
Where never any died.
-Aanistoa Hot Blast.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20

Some of onr reform friends know
that the only objection they have
urged to McEnery was that they be-
lieved he was Influenced by the city
ring. This being the case, how can
they consistently accept the services OF
the city ring in the interest of their
candidate Why not cut loose from
rings and factions and support man
who has no connection or sympathy
with rings? Such man is John G.
Moucure. - Gi55Sldud NetC Era.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20
The Pay OF Some Editors.

OF the editors, Mr.. Stone, Of the
Journal OF Commerce, Is paid $40, 900.
He Is tho president Of the Associated
Press, immensely wealthy, lives In
Brooklyn, and has II mania for choice
flowers and plants his collection IL
worth over $250,O00. Charles A.
Dana, editor Of the Sun, Is paid 81, 900,
but he Is also large stock holder In
the paper, and his income from this
source In quite 100000. Before the
paper began to decline the sum was
nearly 100000. Whiteiaw Reid,
chief owner of the Tribune, pays him
self Sl2, 900 yearly. He has been very
fortunate In speculation, and IL said to
be worth over 81 100000 His wife, a
daughter of ID. o. Mills, has fortune
! OF half that sum in her own name. DIR.
George IL. lIepwOrth, who was ut one
time a great pulpit orator, now chief Of
the Herald staff, Is paid $l2 900 yearly
by James Gordon Bennett. Julius
| Chambers, the managing editor OF the
same paper, receives 100000. Charles
Il. Miller, the real editor OF the New
| York Times, gets $4,000 year. He
| has several assistants In editorial
writing who get from $4,000 to $1,000.
John G. Reid, the managing editor Of
the paper, gets $4,000, and Harold Fred
eric, the London correspondent, $1,000.
| Colonel John A. Cockril managing
editor OF the World, gets $4,000
yearly. He also gets Il small share Of
the profits of the paper, making in all
10000 yearly. George w. Turner,
the publisher Of the same paper, makes
| $40, 900 yearly. George William Cur
tis IS paid $4,000 yearly for editing
ITarper's Weekly. He does not do
much work, and for days at time
does not go near the Office. lie lives
in delightful ease IN great big roomy
house on Staten Island Novelist
Howclls is paid $4,000 for his work
on Iarper's Magazine, and Charles
Dudley Warner just half the sum for
his humorous work on the same
monthly. Richard Watson Glider gets
$4,000 for editing the Century Maga-
zine.-N,c IOrh ket0'.
! The New Orleans Chronicle gives
the following as the origin of tho cur
rent slang, "Let her go, Gallagher"
The expression, "l.ut her go, Gal
laghcr," has been generally accredited
to an incident on the street cars of
New Orleans during the Worlds Ex-
position. 1t Is now claimed that
Thos. J. Gallagher, formerly sporting
editor of the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
was so instructed to use his cure by au
impatient bysttndcr while playing Il
game Ui billiards.
How will this do for yicl OF corn
On "a single acre:
s. "Nr. Il. i, Porter, Of Spanish Lake,
NaicEitOche5 parish, last year raised
= 100 bushels OF corn on an acre OF land
He planted the Mosby corn. The gen
tfemcn who measured il saw five wei
matured cars on a stalk, and three car!
to stalk was an average
Has Col. Rivers, of New Orleans
taken any steps II pay the $500 h
owes to the State 70. rent on the ole
o st. Louis Hotel: IL not, has anything
been done to force him to make tn
payment Baton Rouge truth.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20

THE TELEGRApH: One dollar per
year.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-08-20

Has Col. Rivers, OF New Orleans,
taken any steps II pay the 5000 he
owes to the State 70. rent on the old
st. Louis Hotel" II not, has anything
been done to force him To make the
payment - Baton Isouge truth.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
A Characteristic of the T'linkits.

The T'linkits, writes Lieut. Schwatka,
in the Independent, never understand the
meaning of joke, and if it is of practi-
cal nature they are sure to get quite angry;
and if it is not, it falls as flat on their ma
ture as the reading of last years almanac.
They will sometimes "guy" each other
little, at personal mishap, as slipping
down in the mud, falling in the water, or
something similar thereto, but beyond
this they never go, or seem to understand.
Any adventure that has funny character
to it, and that we would dub "a good
joke, rolls off of their intellect like water
off a ducks back.
A white man, living in Sitka, did
great deal of hunting to while away the
time; and to increase his score among the
ducks which he sought, the most abun-
dant of all game thereabouts, he sent East
and bought number of duck decoys
These were placed in the water where he
knew those water fowl were generally
plentiful, and they were left until they
had succeeded in decoying some of the
birds about them. They came under the
observation of young T'linkit hunter,
who ran to his house and got an old
worn-out shotgun, and then he COM
menced the not very difficult task
of crawling upon the decoys needlessly
keeping out of sight behind the logs and
brush of the beach until, at the waters
edge, he was about forty yards away, and
safely hidden behind big drift-stump.
He then preceded to let the dozen de-
coys have ringing discharge from both
barrels that nearly tore his shoulder off,
and set his ears to ringing like buzz-saws,
but that, of course, had no effect on the
wooden ducks, much to the young mans
establishment.
He wasted a great deal of ammunition
before the truth dawned on his mind.
Now an American boy, under similar cir
cumstances, would have crept back to the
brush, hiding closer to the ground than
before, and after getting well out of
sight, would have taken particular pains
to have forgotten all about it as soon as
possible. Our Sitka youth, on the con-
trary, was in rage, and he lost no great
amount of time in hunting up the owner
of the decoys, and despite the latter's i'm
moderate laughter, which only angered
him the more, he insisted on being paid
for the ammunition he had expended on
the wooden ducks, and was so persistent
in his demands, that the owner paid it to
get rid of him; and which thoroughly set
tied the case, for the Indian had no shame
or modesty as to the part he had acted in
the adventure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
Animals that Change Color.

There is tiny Crustacean, the chame-
leon shrimp, which can alter its hue to
that of any material on which it happens
to rest. On sandy bottom it appears
gray or sand-colored; when lurking
among seaweed it becomes green, or red
or brown, according to the nature of its
momentary background. Probably the
effect is quite unconscious, or at least in
voluntary, like blushing with ourselves
and nobody ever blushed on purpose,
though they do say distinguished poet
once complained that an eminent actor
did not follow his stage directions because
he omitted to obey the rubrical remark,
''Here Harold puppies with anger" The
change is produced by certain automatic
muscles which force up particular pig
ment cells above the Others, green com
ing to the top on a green surface, red on
ruddy one, and brown or gray where
the circumstances demand them. Many
kinds of fish similarly alter color to suit
their background by forcing forward or
backward certain special pigment
known as chromatophores, whose various
combinations produce at will almost any
required tone or shade. Almost all rep
tiles and amphibians possess the power of
changing their hue in accordance with
their environment in very high degree
and among certain tree toads and frogs
it is difficult to say what is the normal
coloring, as they vary indefinitely from
buff and dove-color to chocolate brown,
rose, and even lilac O0rnhiU
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
Interesting Bible Facts.

In the Bible the word Lord is found
1858 times, the word Jehovah 1855
times, and the word reverend but once,
and that in tho 9th verse of the cxith
Psalm.
The 9Th verse of the cxvilth Psalm is
the middle verse of the Bible. The 9th
verse of the xiiith chapter of Esther is
the longest verse. The 35th verse xith
chapter of st. John is the shortest.
In the cviith Psalm four verses are
alike, the 9Th, 18th, 21st and 31st.
Each verse of the cxxxvith Psalm ends
alike.
No names or words with more than
six syllables are found in the Bible.
The xxxviith chapter of Isaiah and
the xixth chapter of ID Kings are
alike.
The word girl occurs but once in the
Bible, and that in the Sd verse and lid
chapter of Joel.
There are found in both books of the
Bible 3, $50, 4s3 letters, IT'S, 603 words,
81, 373 verses, 1889 chapters, and &C
books. TIC xxvith chapter of the Acts
of the Apostles is the finest to read. The
most beautiful chapter in the Bible is
the xxiiid Psalm. : Philadelphia Call.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

shrugged and listened, and at the end re-
Ps=1sd: "Settlementn.
Fontaine at last drew check for the
amount of his indebtedness, and the
Frenchman disappeared.
Time passed. No trace was found OF
Barton nor his lovely wife. One day, in
New York, Reginald visited the Rogues'
Gallery at Police Headquarters. He saw
many faces there not in the collection of
his home officials-among these, F. f.
Barton, and the French salesman who
had commissioned the locket
Although the police could not explain
this coincidence and secuted his conclu-
sions, Fontaine always believed himself
the victim of a double conspiracy; that
the knaves travelled the globe with ample
capital, one placing jewels stolen abroad
in the hands of responsible dealers in
small American towns, the other follow
ing to recapture the prizes, and the
original conspirator returning to demand
payment for the loss.
But while he never placed hand OF
eyes again upon the French salesman, he
had the satisfaction of adding his testi-
mony to the catalogue of evidence
against Mr.. Barton at a later day, and of
seeing him consigned to prison. The
Versailles Locket, however, never reap
peared, but Mr.. Reginald Fontaine con-
cluded that his experience was worth the
two thousand five hundred dollars which
it cost him. He deals no more with I'M
known foreign manufacturers, neither
does he trust valuable jewels among
strangers. -Frdnk LeSlie'S.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
Horse Racing in Persia.

S. @. W. Benjamin, late United
States Minister to Persia, says in an
article in the New York Star: In Persia,
at least, the annual races are genuine
godsend. Although given under royal
auspices, these races are open to all
alike; any one who pleases can enter a
racer, and all, from the mendicant to
the Shah, may look on, putting in prac-
tce the proverb that cat may look at
the king. The streets are thronged with
spectators as coach after coach wheels
by TO the races, attended by scores OF
mounted attendants in gorgeous
liveries. The beautiful, pinnacled gates
OF the city are black with nimble urchins
who have scaled the giddy heights to
catch a glimpse of the show. For once
the strict court etiquette seems relaxed
and sovereign and people meet on the
same plane-that of common, uni
versal enjoyment.
The Persians are lively and mercurial
like the Parisians, fond of splendor and
display, and they will endure much from
a ruler who fills their eyes with spectac-
ular pageants. The occasion is rendered
more brilliant and useful as we'll be-
cause of the great military parade that
is given on the final day of the races.
For it serves to stimulate the esprit du
corps of the troops and enables one to
firm an Ineligible idea of the compost
ton and discipline of the armies of the
Shah at the present time. One sees
there troops uniformed in q semi-Euro-
pean style, and drilled in European tao
tics; and also irregular cavalry wearing
the picturesque costumes of other days,
with muskets seven feet long and spiked
forks on which to rest them in action.
Parks of modern, breach-loading ar
tillery are followed by batteries of small
cannon, carried on camels and mules,
from whose backs this quaint artillery is
fred, a method that is not without value
even now amid some of the fearful
mountain roads of Persia. The cavalry
is very finely mounted, and for skill in
evolutions or in keeping in the saddle
cannot be surpassed. A very odd fea-
ture of this annual parade is the enor-
mous ill or elephant, which takes the
fiead with stately tread and covered with
gay caparisons. 1t reminds one of the
times long past when Darius and Chos-
roes maintained whole ranks of elephants
in the van of their victorious armies.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
A Powerful Explosive.

If melinite, the new explosive invented
by French chemist, is all that the gov
eminent of France claims, it will revolu-
tionize warfare. General Brialmont, who
has recently been experimenting in Bel
GUM with the new explosive, has advised
the Roumanian Government to suspend
labor on the defensive works around
Bucharest. He asserts that it will be
necessary to devise new plans to with
stand the new explosive. If Bucharest,
one of the very strongest fortresses in
Europe is unable to Withstand the force
of melinite, the coast Notifications of all
the world may be considered worthless.
1t is worth while to bear in mind, how
ever, that bluffing is favorite move in
the game of European diplomacy just at
present. Russia, for instance, claims
the invention of an explosive a triie of
ten or fifteen times more powerful than
melinite. -Nea0 York Commercial
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

One Sunday morning, clergyman
was greatly annoyed by an unusual
amount of coughing among his congre
cation. He had not strong voice, and
could only be distinctly heard when the
people were quite still and attentive. AS
the coughing went on and even grew
worse, he suddenly stopped short right
in the middle Of his sermon. All eyes
were instantly turned to the pulpit,
every cough was hushed and there was
perfect silence. 'My friends" said the
minister with smile, "it seems you
stop when stop" This gentle, good
tempered rebuke had the desired effect.
The people found that their coughing
could be kept down when they liked to
a great extent, and the minister pro-
ceeded with his sermon under far more
favorable conditions.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

Mrs Lydia e. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass
About the first CT September 1881, my wife
was taken with uterine hemorrhage. The best
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She was troubled with Prolapsus Uteri, Leu
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She said she coulddiscover salutary effect
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
A Very Sanguine Man.

"There goes one of the most sanguine
men ever knew"
"So9"
eyes, his implicit faith in the advance.
ment of civilization, and the good things
the future has in store for us is simply
wonderful"
"Does he think the future will bring
messenger boys who can walk mile in
half day9 Surely he is not so rash as
that"
ooh, worse than that. Why he actual.
ly argues that the next century will bring
BARRIERS who can cut mans hair, and not
let more than half of it drop down the
back of his neck.---SVtingS
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
Absent Minded.

German professors are proverbially alb
sent-minded, but none of them more so
than Professor Drusel, of Bonn. He
noticed, one day, his wife placing a
large bouquet on his desk.
"What does all that mean2" he
asked.
"Why this is the anniversary of your
marriage" replied Mrs. Drusel.
each Colt! Is that so! Well, let me
know when yours comes around, and
FL reciprocate. - Texas Siftings.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
The vT.ys,ru Settlers Chosen Specific.

The Western Settlers Chosen Specific.
With every advance OF emigration into the
far West, new demand is created for Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled re-
gions are frequently less salubrious than older
settled localities, on account Of the miasma
which rises from recently cleared lasd, par
ticulArly along the banks Of rivers that are
subject to freshets. The agricultural or min
ing enigrant soon learns, when he does not
already know that the Bitters afford the only
sure protection against malaria, and those dis
orders of the stomach, liver and bowels 10
which climate changes, exposure, and unac-
custome1 OF unhealthy water or diet subject
him. Consequently, he places an estimate
upon this great household specific and pre-
ventive commensurate with its intrinsic MGR
its, and is careful 10 keep on hand a restorative
and promoter Of health so IMPLICITLY TO be
relied upon in time of need.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
WHO KNOWS ?
Who Of us know

W uo VI Us Know
How our next neighbor faresi
How Of the woes and many cares
That rise like mountains in their wayl
And who Of us can say
We know of that large world we never see,
The world of povertyi
Who of us know
How much of pain a smiling face conceals,
How little of the sunlight ever steals
Into the lives Of those who seem the happiest
The one who makes US merry with the jest,
May he not carry in his heart so free
A wound he does not wish the world to sect
Who Of us love,
And loving, cherish but the empty name,
And feed our hearts on naught; the flame
That burns so brilliant and so bright
That lights our path as do the stars of night,
Goes out quick as heavens lightning flashes,
And leaves us-ashes!
George WilBlot Harris
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18
"Nip't In the Bud!"

Sad to say, many good thing Attains to
other hand it is matter for coHgratulation
that the growth of some evil things may be
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Try it. 1t has cured thousands. All drug.
gists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

Sweet are the uses Of dduersitu the printers
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Of advertising. Sweet, indeed, to those who
in sickness aud suffering have seen the adver-
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The best thing ever saw in my paper was
the advertisement of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical discovery is again and again the
testimony of those who have been healed by
il of lung disease, bronchial affections, tumors,
ulcers, liver complaints and the ills to which
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

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but Red Star CoUga Cure is everytoiy-s
Trend. Prof. GIothe, Of the Brooklyn Board
OF Health, endorses it as prompt, safe and
sure. Price, twenty-five cents bottle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-03-18

There is no reason why you should not make
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Maine, and they will send you, free, fu IN,
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ing thereby from SIS to S25 per day and Up,
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